I have a small doubt regarding the usage of Bon soir and Bonne soirée.
As far as my understanding goes or you can blindly say what I have been doing till now is: Bon soir, when you meet someone and ...

Several times now, I have seen French people greet each other (via text chat) by saying "coucou". This appears to simply be derived from the word of the same spelling "coucou", describing the noise a ...

I was under the impression that both amener and emmener mean "to take" someone somewhere. I'm not sure how they differ in usage.
I started wondering after hearing the song L'Homme Que J'Adore, where ...

Can someone explain the meaning and common usages of this phrase? I hear it often and am not entirely sure I always understand it. Does it mean something like English's “whatever” or “bullshit”? Is it ...

I often come across the phrase du coup in the course of discussion with my French friends. What does it signify and when to use it? Some of them tend to add it in every other sentence, most often at ...

When I first learned French in high school, we were taught that mon œil was a way of expressing disbelief to another person, accompanied by a silly finger-eye gesture. For the French users here, I was ...

I always hear my French teachers say “entre guillemets” followed by some phrases.
I asked my friends what does it mean? They told me that they use it when talking about something not true. However, I ...

There are lots of latin phrases in common use in English. Is it suitable/appropriate/common to directly use them in French, exactly like I would for English?
For the purposes of discussion lets look ...

My French teacher always say that “mon amie” or “mon ami” expresses an amorous relationship, like “girlfriend” and “boyfriend”.
So, what would be the current way to say things like (for example):
I ...

In Canada, there's a dish spelt 'poutine', which consists of fries, gravy, and cheese curds. However, I have come across two conflicting accounts of how to pronounce the word online, and I would like ...

What is a word that describes the closed-ness of a door and what is another for locked-ness of a door in French?
Long story:
I was told by my French girlfriend when we woke up that the door was not "...

Recently, I've been around native French speakers on a daily basis and constantly hear phrases like “Ah! d'accord, okay”, but from my (very basic) understanding of French, they mean the same thing.
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